Apple’s iOS 27 is available for iPhone 11 and later, adding features and security fixes. The author recommends upgrading but says iOS 26.7 is reasonable amid reports of battery drain, glitches and Face ID freezes; Apple says a Face ID fix is due soon.
New tools include Safari tabs grouped by topic and a feature that checks whether webpages change, natural-language functions in Calendar, accessibility improvements and a Siri mode in Camera. The update is available under Settings > General > Software Update; on the writer’s iPhone 17 Pro Max, the download was 22.94GB.
Forbes contributor Kate O’Flaherty estimates iOS 27 includes 120 security fixes; the article says 75 patches are shared with iOS 26.7, released at the same time with security updates only. Reported battery drain could stem from extensive indexing, the article says, particularly if a phone was not already running the latest iOS 26 release.
